Volodymyr Holubnychy

Volodymyr Holubnytschyj (Ukrainian Володимир Голубничий, English transcription Volodymyr Holubnychyy, also Russian Владимир Степанович Голубничий Vladimir Stepanovich Golubnitschi - Vladimir Golubnichiy, . Born June 2, 1936 in Sumy in Ukraine ) is a former Ukrainian mountaineers, the Olympic champion was starting for the Soviet Union.

Holubnytschyj is in the athletics discipline 20 - km walk an absolute exceptional athlete, who participated in five consecutive Olympics. At the European Championships he reached in 1962 in Belgrade bronze, in Budapest in 1966 and silver in 1974 in Rome Gold.

In his first Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, he immediately won the gold medal ahead of Australian Noel Freeman and the British Stan Vickers. In the following Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 he won the bronze medal behind the Briton Ken Matthews and the German Dieter Lindner from the GDR. Despite the amount of air in top form again at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he managed to repeat his victory from 1960, this time in front of the Mexican José Pedraza and also starting for the Soviet Union Nikolai Smaga.

At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 he won the silver medal, between the two DDR - goers Peter Frenkel and Hans -Georg Reimann. 16 years after his first Olympic start, he finished seventh at the Games in Montreal in 1976.

2012 Holubnytschyj was included in the IAAF Hall of Fame.